The OTA_Ping messages are used to test the connectivity with the Hotel-Spider system:


Every time the hotel's inventory or any of its stay restrictions (Booking rules) has been changed inside the third party software, the changes (and only the changes) should be transfered to Hotel-Spider. As this is a "notif" message, it implies that the third party software client pushes the information to the Hotel-Spider servers.

Endpoints

Example request and response

<OTA_PingRQ xmlns="http://www.opentravel.org/OTA/2003/05" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.opentravel.org/OTA/2003/05 OTA_ReadRQ.xsd" TimeStamp="2003-03-17T09:30:47-05:00" Target="Test" Version="2.0">
  <POS>
    <Source>
      <RequestorID ID="USERNAME" MessagePassword="PASSWORD"></RequestorID>
    </Source>
  </POS>
  <EchoData>Hello Moto</EchoData>
</OTA_PingRQ>



<OTA_PingRS xmlns="http://www.opentravel.org/OTA/2003/05" schemaLocation="http://www.opentravel.org/OTA/2003/05 OTA_PingRQ.xsd" TimeStamp="2015-11-20T07:42:35+01:00" Target="Test" CorrelationID="002564ec0dba75cb" Version="1.0">
  <EchoData>Hello Moto</EchoData>
  <Success></Success>
</OTA_PingRS>


Request structure

OTA_PingRQ

Parent: None (Root element)

Mandatory: yes

Attributes:

NameMandatoryDescription
TimeStampYesThe format should respect the ISO 8601 2015-11-16T22:23:48+00:00
TargetYes

When sending updates to the staging environment "Test" must be used.

When sending updates to the production environment "Production" must be used.

VersionYesThe default value should be "1.000"

Child elements: POS (when using POS authentication. See Authentication methods for more information), EchoData


EchoData

Parent: OTA_PingRQ

Mandatory: yes

Attributes: None

Child elements: None


Response structure

OTA_PingRS

Parent: None (Root element)

Mandatory: yes

Attributes:

NameMandatoryDescription
TimeStampYesThe format will respect the ISO 8601 2015-11-16T22:23:48+00:00
TargetYesThe same value, used in the request, will be returned.
VersionYesThe value wil be "1.000"

Child elements: Success, Warning, Errors, EchoData


EchoData

Parent: OTA_PingRS

Mandatory: No

Attributes: None

Child elements: None